Does elemental equilibrium stuff up burn damage?

Say I hit a monster with fireball and it ignites because of flammability.

Does the initial fire damage increase fire resistance of the monster and decrease burn damage?

My bet is no, because resistance was worked into how much damage your fire ball did, and the burn is based on that. If they re-figured in resistance again, we'd be seeing resistances applied twice.

I'm interested because I'm thinking of running a burn orientated explosive arrow character with elemental equilibrium.

If my bow is stormcloud (pure lightning DMG) and I hit someone with explosive arrow and it ignites should I use EE or not?

I play an EE EA character and can confirm that the fire explosion DOES trigger EE and increase fire resistances To combat this you use another skill such as Iceshot,lightning arrow, or split arrow with chain to reduce their fire resists after they begin burning.

One round looks like this for me: Stack 5 explosive arrow fuses on 1 mob, trigger EE with split arrow and chain, curse flammability, trigger EE once again with split arrow and chain if they didn't instantly die from the explosion.

Keep in mind you need some flat cold or lightning damage on your gear, or alternatively you could run anger or wrath. You CANNOT have any flat fire damage on ANY gear.

Last note, I think you will be better off with a quill rain for EA as it has the highest attack speed in the game for a bow.



You only need a 4 link to be very strong up until maps.

Best of luck and hope I helped.

what he said. shot 5 explosives on one mob, trigger equilibrium (for +explosive damage), curse, trigger eq. again for more damage from the burning.

burning is very powerful with elemental proliferation. it clears out a whole room in up to 72 maps atm (lvl 86 templar), (exception: ele resist mobs, fire resist mobs; with them it may need more of the routine above ;) ).

to trigger EE i use split arrow+chain+LoH+blind. with that kombo i can face tank leap slamming map bosses, enfeebled and blinded, leech back life through LoH with the speed from quill rain and the power of chain.
sometimes (especially if u use a 6 link, and EA costs ~150 mana (life in my case, BM)it´s good to get some life back quick. but high life regen helps here, got arround 350 life reg/s atm, and with that i can spam EA, and set a huge amount of mobs on fire;

if it´s a lower or easy map, you can herd a lot of mobs together, and kill them all in one big explosion and huge burning damage, because the biggest burn damage get´s proliferated.

against reflect i had no problems so far, with 75% allres and about 6.5 K life., u have to try how much they hurt you, use only one or two fuses first, and be careful with double reflect mobs- else it´s a pretty stable build, good dps and good defense. also fun to play.
good choice, hf with EA!